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author | Gustavo Niemeyer <gustavo@niemeyer.net> | 2003-04-27 12:34:14 (GMT) |
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committer | Gustavo Niemeyer <gustavo@niemeyer.net> | 2003-04-27 12:34:14 (GMT) |
commit | c34f2555bd414254f941d0659ba9c229b96ec728 (patch) | |
tree | 7c7a681087d14a07eecae1aa2d870e3dd44af452 /Doc/TODO | |
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Applied patch #725106, by Greg Chapman, fixing capturing groups
within repeats of alternatives. The only change to the original
patch was to convert the tests to the new test_re.py file.
This patch fixes cases like:
>>> re.match('((a)|b)*', 'abc').groups()
('b', '')
Which is wrong (it's impossible to match the empty string),
and incompatible with other regex systems, like the following
examples show:
% perl -e '"abc" =~ /^((a)|b)*/; print "$1 $2\n";'
b a
% echo "abc" | sed -r -e "s/^((a)|b)*/\1 \2|/"
b a|c
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